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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Alicandro, Gianfranco
• Remuzzi, Giuseppe
• La Vecchia, Carlo

Titel

Italy's first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic has ended: no excess mortality in May, 2020

Ist Teil von

• The Lancet (British edition), 2020-09, Vol.396 (10253), p.e27-e28

Ort / Verlag

England: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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Quelle

Elsevier ScienceDirect Journals Complete

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [...]the median age at death of patients who died and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 infection was 82 years; 95% of them had at least one comorbidity, and 60% had at least three comorbidities before being infected. [...]total mortality in Italy showed that the COVID-19 pandemic had severely hit the country in the month of March, 2020, but there was a remarkable attenuation of the excess mortality in April and a lack of excess deaths in May. [...]total mortality is a key indicator of the COVID-19 effect; the excess total mortality in March and April, 2020, in Italy was substantial (ie, a total of over 45 000 deaths), corresponding to an overall excess about 60% greater than the number of officially registered COVID-19 deaths; there was a substantial under-registration of COVID-19 deaths in March, 2020, and a smaller under-registration in April, 2020; there was no residual excess total mortality in May, 2020, when COVID-19 deaths were probably over-registered.